“There’s nothing left,” says Kathy Vellon, who has many family members living in Puerto Rico. “My aunt said it’s like the apocalypse...just people people collecting water off the side of a mountain.”more

On Sept. 19, Dr. Doug Kramer, 72, joined forces with Dr. Andrés Martin to help raise money for Break the Cycle, a non-profit Martin founded last year to help draw attention to what he describes as a “huge public health mess.”more

About a dozen people at UW-Madison worked on the Department of Homeland Security-funded atlas over five years. Although previous attempts to map the internet’s physical structure have been made, this is the most comprehensive and accurate.more

True crime was once devoted to recounting the lurid, gruesome details of murder, mayhem and more. But the purveyors of the “new true crime” — filmmakers, journalists and others — are now using it to shine light on a broken justice system.more

Decades ago, a quirky T-shirt featuring the Capitol and a naked Lady Wisconsin smoking a joint captured the spirit of “Mad City.” Its creator, James McKiernan, had a successful design career. Now back in Madison, he’s once again selling the shirts.more

Mark Ediger, a UW-Madison researcher, has figured out a new way to arrange the molecules in glass, a thing no one had believed possible. But whether the discovery will find a market use remains to be seen.more

North Madison has always been one of the city’s scruffier, underappreciated parts of town. Although it will soon lose Oscar Mayer, the area has a fierce and loyal advocate in the Northside Planning Council, which is cooking up a promising future.more